Bug 2404096 (CVE-2025-39980) - CVE-2025-39980 kernel: nexthop: Forbid FDB status change while nexthop is in a group
Summary: CVE-2025-39980 kernel: nexthop: Forbid FDB status change while nexthop is in ...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-39980
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2025-10-15 08:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-10-16 12:16 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-15 08:01:40 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nexthop: Forbid FDB status change while nexthop is in a group

The kernel forbids the creation of non-FDB nexthop groups with FDB
nexthops:

 # ip nexthop add id 1 via 192.0.2.1 fdb
 # ip nexthop add id 2 group 1
 Error: Non FDB nexthop group cannot have fdb nexthops.

And vice versa:

 # ip nexthop add id 3 via 192.0.2.2 dev dummy1
 # ip nexthop add id 4 group 3 fdb
 Error: FDB nexthop group can only have fdb nexthops.

However, as long as no routes are pointing to a non-FDB nexthop group,
the kernel allows changing the type of a nexthop from FDB to non-FDB and
vice versa:

 # ip nexthop add id 5 via 192.0.2.2 dev dummy1
 # ip nexthop add id 6 group 5
 # ip nexthop replace id 5 via 192.0.2.2 fdb
 # echo $?
 0

This configuration is invalid and can result in a NPD [1] since FDB
nexthops are not associated with a nexthop device:

 # ip route add 198.51.100.1/32 nhid 6
 # ping 198.51.100.1

Fix by preventing nexthop FDB status change while the nexthop is in a
group:

 # ip nexthop add id 7 via 192.0.2.2 dev dummy1
 # ip nexthop add id 8 group 7
 # ip nexthop replace id 7 via 192.0.2.2 fdb
 Error: Cannot change nexthop FDB status while in a group.

[1]
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000003c0
[...]
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
CPU: 6 UID: 0 PID: 367 Comm: ping Not tainted 6.17.0-rc6-virtme-gb65678cacc03 #1 PREEMPT(voluntary)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.17.0-4.fc41 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:fib_lookup_good_nhc+0x1e/0x80
[...]
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 fib_table_lookup+0x541/0x650
 ip_route_output_key_hash_rcu+0x2ea/0x970
 ip_route_output_key_hash+0x55/0x80
 __ip4_datagram_connect+0x250/0x330
 udp_connect+0x2b/0x60
 __sys_connect+0x9c/0xd0
 __x64_sys_connect+0x18/0x20
 do_syscall_64+0xa4/0x2a0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53


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